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> One of the big challenges in designing fast scalable transports that gain speed by allowing drops or out of order delivery is in making them compatible with the congestion control regime that TCP implements.

I would argue that this very thing makes TCP inelegant; congestion-control should really have been its own layer between IP and TCP, instead of being something that every protocol that's not UDP has to carefully reimplement.




I said TCP was elegant, not that it was perfect. It also has the "urgent data pointer". :)




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